Just How Many Facebook Friends Do You Need?Twenty-somethings spend hours each day keeping their social networks going. But a thousand BFFs just may be a few hundred too many. The torture of modern friendship. Source: Robin Marantz Henig, Samantha Henig /Newsweek/ October 15, 2012

Ask a group of elderly people what it was about their lives that made them happiest overall, and they’ll probably mention some warm relationships with family and friends. If you’re satisfied with your social life, according to psychologists, you tend to be satisfied with life in general. From the vantage point of my 50s, I’d say that sounds about right. Some of my happiest moments are the ones I spend with my husband, a few close relatives, and a handful of very good friends who know me well and like me anyway. But the more I read about how social media are interfering with good old fashioned friendship, creating virtual bonds that can’t quite take the place of real ones, the more I wonder just how today’s 20-somethings will look back on their own lives when they’re my age. After all, much crucial relationship building work is done in the 20s. According to research by Bernice Neugarten of the University of Chicago, who helped launch the academic study of human development, people choose most of their adult relationships, both friends and lovers, between the ages of22 and 28. The friends we make in our 20s are not only BFFs; they’re also our first truly chosen friends, people we discover as a result of our adult decisions—where to live, work, or study—as opposed to our parents’ choices. And choosing how to reconfigure and commit to these friendships is an essential psychological task of the 20s. Finding intimacy—the basis and byproduct of good friendships—is one of the five major life tasks of young adults ages 18 to 30, according to Robert Arnstein, a Yale psychiatristwho was, like Neugarten, a pioneer in the study of development through the life span. But with so...

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Larry Rosen, a psychologist at Cal State Dominguez Hills, conducted a study recently which showed that Facebook can form unhealthy habits and even develop personality disorders in your children and teens.
Rosen has been studying the effect of technology on people for more than 25 years. He’s recently studied social networking and its effects on children. He spoke about some of his findings at the American Psychological Assn’s annual convention in Washington, D.C. on Saturday.
He stated that young people who use video games and social media more frequently tend to have more stomach aches and suffer from sleeping problems along with anxiety and depression.
Also, teens and young adults that log onto Facebook constantly tend to be more narcissistic. The era of social media and broadcasting yourself to others frequently feeds right into the agenda of a narcissist.
According to Rosen, the more frequently young people used Facebook, the more likely they were going to develop an antisocial personality disorder. He also said they were likely to suffer from paranoia, anxiety and alcohol abuse.
He also analyzed the studying habits of middle school, high school and college students. What he found was that most students were only able to stay focused on their studies for about three minutes before engaging in...

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In September 2010 a new cohort of around 300 International students from relatively diverse backgrounds began a BA (Hons) course at the University of Central Lancashire in International Business Communication. It was decided early on by the Course Leader that Facebook would be used as a tool to facilitate communication and internationalization. The reason that Facebook was chosen for this study is that it is the most popular online social networking site among university students.
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Within a week, around one hundred students had signed up to the site along with a small number of staff. By the end of the course the numbers had swelled to around 200 users. Only basic rules and norms were formed in order to avoid any serious conflict issues. The use of the site is ongoing and by May 2011 nearly 400 postings had been made.
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Facebook and Communication
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Facebook and Communication 2
Candy Crush Saga, Farmville, private messages and "Liking" sound familiar? They are all part of the phenomenom known as Facebook. The popular social media website was created by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, according to Wikipedia. It quickly escalated into a major part of our society. There are many positive features of Facebook. Some of these features are long distance friends and family staying in touch, reminders of upcoming events and birthdays and it can be a great marketing tool. However, in this day and age, social media has aided in the lack of personal contact the public has with each other, resulting in poor communication skills.
Nowadays when you think of communicating with loved ones, there is the phone, mail, face to face contact and Facebook. This social media website has opened doors to long distance communication. If your friend in California posts a picture, you see it right away instead of waiting for the mail service to deliver it days later. Many businesses also use Facebook to advertise their products and sales. There are even some that offer exclusive "Facebook Discounts". Another great feature is the reminders of birthdays and events, such as a...

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But, the point that many users fail to understand is that whatever the controls on offer, Facebook, at the end of the day, has access to all this information. The company is making use of all this information, to generate multi billion dollars.
Facebook has received criticism on a wide range of issues, including, online privacy, child safety, hate speech and the inability to terminate accounts without first manually deleting the content. In 2008, many companies removed their advertising from the site because it was being displayed on the pages of individuals and groups they found controversial.
The debate and discussion regarding Facebook’s privacy control is as old as the social network itself. But, what is now bringing this issue to the fore again is the slew of controversial plans announced by Facebook.
Major Privacy Issues: -
• Date mining-
People has a perception that Facebook is selling all the Costumers or users information to many Add agency’s, Surveys agency’s etc. and making lots of profits in to there pockets
• Cooperation with government search requests-
As Government and local authorities rely on Facebook and other social networks to investigate crimes and obtain evidence to help establish a crime, provide location information, establish motives, prove and disprove alibis, and reveal communications....

...Butler 1 Intellectual Growth and Inquiry 14 March 2011 Facebook: From Whiteboard to World The evolution of the Internet over the past twenty years has changed the way we communicate with others across the world. However, it was not until the late 1990s that the Internet really hit a growth spurt. With such concepts as email and online advertising catching on, the Internet began to expand quickly. Shortly after this rapid growth, MySpace was created and was one of the first websites under the category of social network. With it becoming instantly popular among young users and musicians, it seemed as though MySpace would just be another online meeting point for younger generations; yet at the same time, another of its kind was being created in a Harvard University dorm room that would redefine social networking and, eventually, the internet. Birth of a Nation On a whiteboard in 2003, Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg began conceptualizing a new social network. Zuckerberg was a computer science major and already had previous success with computer engineering. During his senior year of high school at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, Zuckerberg and a classmate co-wrote Synapse, a music recommendation program (Grossman, “Person of The Year 2010: Mark Zuckerberg). The program had caught the attention of Microsoft and AOL, both of whom unsuccessfully made attempts to buy it for around one million dollars (Grossman, “Person of The Year 2010: Mark Zuckerberg)....

...1. Why conduct business on Facebook?
1. The number of user affects the effectiveness of business activity
Facebook is the biggest social networking site in the world, it launched on 2004 and the users has reached 1，000 millions up to now (CrunchBase 2013). It means that for every seven people on the planet have one person to use Facebook. According to All Facebook data, Facebook has taken root in more than 200 countries or regions around the world, the social empire has only 20 users in the Vatican, but in the United States the number of users reached 166 millions and then the number of users is up to 50 millions in 6 years, in the subsequent two years the number has doubled. In the past year, the number of Facebook users grew by nearly 30%, but in some areas such as Brazil, Facebook membership doubled. Thus, so many users, Facebook is a good business platform for most businesses.
1.2 Page views will directly affect a website visibility
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Facebook for Students
By Economist Jul 12, 2012 0 0
Overview of Facebook for Students
Before discussing the advantages and disadvantages of Facebook for students -- I believe it is first best to get an quick overview of what exactly 'Facebook' is.
As social networking sites have now become an integral part of a student's everyday life and withFacebook considered to be the 'Big Daddy' of the online social networking world -- consisting of over 900 million users, it is not too surprising to find that more than 96% of students claim they have a Facebook Profile (with 10% using it daily)[4346] -- this coupled with the fact it actually originated from a student, Mark Zuckerberg, on Havard University Campus.
So How does Facebook work?
Each user on Facebook.com has their own free to set-up individual profile from which they can engage with others user's Facebook profiles through instant messaging, email and recently 'video calling' in association with Skype and notifications etc. Furthermore, Facebook users are able to engage in applications, participate in interest groups and organize events through Facebook. And in the future who knows what the possibilites for social networking sites such as Facebook can offers us -- but the primary objective of...

...﻿Facebook: Opportunities
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Why The Interest In Facebook?
Facebook has generated much interest over recent months. Much of the interest has arisen since Facebook announced the Facebook Platform [1] which enabled third party developers to build applications which could be used within the Facebook environment.
Since Facebook was developed initially to support students it is not surprising that student usage has proved so popular. This interest has also spread to other sectors within institutions, with researchers and members of staff exploring Facebook possibilities.
What Can Be Done Within Facebook?
Social networks such as Facebook can provide a range of benefits to members of an organisation:
Connections with peers: The main function of Facebook is to provide connections between people with similar interests. Friends can then send messages to each other (either closed messages or open for others to read).
Groups: Facebook users can set up discussion group areas, which can be used by people with interests in the topic of the group. Creation of details of events, which allows users to sign up to, is another popular use of Facebook.
Sharing resources: Many of the popular Facebook applications are used for sharing...